nymph
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- n (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden
the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water - n a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
- n a voluptuously beautiful young woman
- Sometimes the fish go for the nymph, the youngest stage, at the bottom of the river.
- Of Attica, the softer charms of the nymph who plays the nymph.
- A naked nymph pulling a kangaroo's tail? Or was she really pulling a million Australian legs?"She's out there, all right," said Hunter Ron Sells, insisting.